From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. T

"Highly readable, vastly informative, and richly illustrated from the first page to the last"--Booklist. From the Boer War to the Russian Revolution, from the G

From Kurdistan to Somaliland, Xinjiang to South Yemen, all secessionist movements hope to secure newly independent states of their own. Most will not prevail. T

Everyday Forms of State Formation is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and

After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republ